[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 227 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 227

  To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds to provide or support 
programs to provide individuals with hypodermic needles or syringes for 
                       the use of illegal drugs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 19, 1999

Mr. Coverdell (for himself and Mr. Brownback) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds to provide or support 
programs to provide individuals with hypodermic needles or syringes for 
                       the use of illegal drugs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR HYPODERMIC NEEDLES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds shall 
be made available or used to carry out or support, directly or 
indirectly, any program of distributing sterile hypodermic needles or 
syringes to individuals for the hypodermic injection of any illegal 
drug.
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